Fantastic write up Brian. Can this be added as a post on the site? On Sat 24 Nov 2018, 16:16 Brian Hollinshead <br...@hollinshead.net wrote:
> Just back from the meeting, some interesting and useful discussion as > usual. > Ciaran did a presentation on the simplicity of Mapmillary. This was > followed later on by a quick walk around the locality by four teams on > foot. Then uploading the resulting images on our return. Ciaran talked > about adding natural and man-made details to the map as well as roads using > the Mapillary plugin on JOSM to indicate the valuable source these images > are for adding > > There was a demonstration of using overass_turbo.eu to extract various > data > sets, save it and then import it into a multilayered u.map. Like using > leaflet but with no knowledge of code or grammar needed, it suits me very > well. Our thanks to OSM France who host the site. > Two example shown include u.osmfr.org/m/161139 which shows 6 of the > boundaries named Rathvilly which enclose Rathvilly Village and > u.osmfr.org/m/180392 with numerous layers showing Superintendent > Registrars > Districts and Registrars District on the east coast. These are particularly > useful to historians and those interested in genealogy. The relations can > be easily built as all the pieces of townland boundary are already there. > > Arising from talk about out of copyright maps we viewed > dublinhistoricmaps.ie which has various georeferenced images from 1700s, > 1800s and 1900s. Where the features coincide with modern OSM maps is best > seen by using the slider at the bottom right. > > Looking forward to the next meeting to get some answers about the > desirability or otherwise of adding dates to the names of historical > boundaries. There just wasn't time today. > > Hope to see some of you there. > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ie mailing list > Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
